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Fbi Usama Bin Laden Unit

Events (16)

(August 4-5, 2001): Phoenix Memo Agent Vets Bush PDB, Fails to Add Relevant Information, Does Not Contact Phoenix Office 2001-08-04
August 23, 2001: FBI Headquarters Gives New York Field Office Heads Up Over 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar, but Investigation Is Not Considered Urgent 2001-08-23
August 23, 2001: FBI Manager Informed of Hunt for 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar, Realizes Seriousness of Situation 2001-08-23
August 23, 2001: FBI Field Agent Tells FBI Headquarters Search for 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar Should Be Criminal, Not Intelligence Investigation 2001-08-23
August 23, 2001: FBI Agent Discusses Opening of Intelligence Investigation with CIA Officer, Notes Almihdhar Has Stronger Link to USSColeBombing 2001-08-23
August 27-28, 2001: NSA Approves Passage of Key Information about 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar toColeInvestigators, but FBI Headquarters Continues to Withhold It 2001-08-27
August 28, 2001:ColeAgent Argues with FBI Headquarters over Search for 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar 2001-08-28
August 28, 2001: USSColeInvestigator Receives Almihdhar Memo, FBI Headquarters Forces Him to Delete It 2001-08-28
(August 28, 2001): FBI Supervisor Says Search for 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar Should Be Criminal, Not Intelligence Investigation 2001-08-28
August 28, 2001: FBI Headquarters Asks New York Office to Open Intelligence Investigation into Hijacker Almihdhar 2001-08-28
August 28-29, 2001: FBI Headquarters Allegedly Misrepresents Attorney’s Advice, Ensuring Search for 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar Is Intelligence Investigation 2001-08-28
August 29, 2001: FBI Wrongly Opens Intelligence Investigation to Find 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar, despite Protests that ‘Someday Somebody Will Die’ as a Result 2001-08-29
August 29, 2001: FBI Does Not Fully Realize 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar Entered US Illegally 2001-08-29
August 30, 2001: CIA Finally Tells FBI Al-Qaeda Leader Met 9/11 Hijackers in Malaysia, but Information Is Withheld from Investigators 2001-08-30
(September 5, 2001): FBI Headquarters Prevents Credit Card Check that Could Help Locate 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar 2001-09-05
March 2000: FBI Agent Apparently Destroys Al-Qaeda E-Mail Intercepts